Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about Haiku. For development related topics, please check out the Development FAQ. Haiku is a fast, efficient, easy to use and lean open source operating ...

Unless the system entered KDL by itself, you can normally do that by invoking the keyboard shortcut Alt-SysReq-D. Note that in KDL your keyboard may not work. PS/2 keyboards always do, USB keyboards ...

This document explains the artistic subtleties of Haiku icons. If it leaves something unclear to you, that is, what rules to follow when designing an icon for the Haiku operating system, please bring ...

What is FUSE? FUSE is an acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace" and in essence allows an operating system to communicate with a file system through a userland progam. By providing this functionality ...

Below you will find documentation on the Application Programming Interface (API) of the Haiku operating system. This API describes the internals of the operating system allowing developers to write ...

Since I started publishing my Learning to Program with Haiku lesson series back in January, I have, on many occasions, seen comments asking for lessons aimed at current codemonkeys who want to break ...

The document below outlines our code style guidelines. If you have suggestions for things that should be clarified better, etc. please let us know. Please don’t send us suggestions of the kind “I like ...

It’s been just about a month less than six years since Haiku’s last release in November 2012 — too long. As a result of such a long gap between releases, there are a lot more changes in this release ...

Haiku also supports booting via the traditional BIOS boot system. See the regular install instructions if your hardware requires a BIOS boot process. Use the instructions on this page should your ...

We are frequently confronted with situations, in which an application is forced to wait for some condition. A multimedia player has to wait for the drive to spin up, a network app is stalling for data ...

Information about a menu such as font size and family, background color, and flags. More ...